@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10094, author={Christensen, Julie and Onul, Darius and Singh, Prakarsh}, title={Impact of Ethnic Civil Conflict on Migration of Skilled Labor}, year={2016}, month={Jul}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={10094}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10094}, abstract={We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting results depending upon if the economy is assumed to be agglomerating in skilled labor or non-agglomerating with network effects. In the latter case, non-ethnic wars may lead to higher skilled emigration. A regression model that accounts for the time-varying definition of migration and includes important explanatory variables shows that non-ethnic wars as opposed to ethnic wars may lead to more skilled emigration.}, keywords={civil war;emigration;brain drain;ethnic war;agglomeration;high-skilled migration}, }